AcademicalNerd @academicalnerd@qoto.org
People are more important than wires.
Joined Jan 2021
Rats run from the sinking ship, it a well-known proverb. I think it is misinterpreted: rats are not cowardly, they are quite intelligent mammals. It is the smart ones who have the hindsight and flee to save themselves and their families.
Twitter is gone as well. Fortunately, there is still mastodon.
I’ll elaborate: it is not blocked from the outside. It is blocked by the government from the inside.
Facebook is blocked. Gg wp.
Huh. You are on point, and I'll expand a bit. The primary goal of election campaign on TV and elsewhere for the ruling party and the marionette ones is not to make people vote. It is made as cringy and ugly as possible to divert people from voting, because it is then easier to get the right numbers. It was a revelation to me a few years ago but make perfect sense now. People should not (from out politics' stance) decide anything.
It feels like hatred nonetheless, especially when people are beat up on the streets. I hope the tension that accumulated over the past week changes something.
Secure, works from usb stick, TOR, Torrent and encryption are defaults. A useful thing today.
I am now downloading and flashing Tails OS on a spare USB stick. An interesting time to live in, indeed.
I’ll sum it up.
Judging by what’s happening, no one hates the people of Russia more than the government of Russia.
Thank you. I’ll need every last bit.
We are buying clothes and (mainly) meds. Some of my family members need medicine made in EU to survive and these may go out of stock soon. So in some sense we do.
Well, Russia is becoming Venezuela in some sense. Prices are spiking and the currency is getting cheaper. Everyone is buying what they can, because there will be no imported goods. A very interesting situation to be in.
This one is from Psi4, visualized with Vesta. I now switched to Quantum Espresso.
Well, people went on the streets in Moscow. 2000 now arrested across country, and on the second day the subway station where people started gathering was blocked immideately. No one wants this war, except for the government.
Some say all germans were nazis in the 1940s. Well, I think I realize how did that feel. Trying to live your life, as best as you can, to find out one day that somebody decided to commit a slaughter using your name.
Another hidden cost of the things that are happening now: no imported medicines. My sister relies on a few of them to live somewhat comfortably, and it was getting progressively more difficult and expensive to buy them over the last years. I guess a couple packs we have now will be the last.
It is now day three of war. I have more or less relized the scale and the consequences of the events and worked out the rough plan of my actions. It’s going to take a lot of work, but I’ll get through this. There are a few complications.
1) Russia can’t buy chemicals from USA anymore. It makes it more difficult to do work as stuff that is made here is not great and what China sells is often quite shite.
2) Germany seized all the scientific projects with Russia, and there were plenty. I think the rest of Europe will follow along soon. And there are few facilities in Russia, most resources spent in the last years were aimed at getting access to foreign ones. Mainly, you guessed it, German.
3) If I happen to drop out of University, I get mobilized and sent to war. Which is not exactly what I aspire to do with my life. Killing humans is not on my to-do list and, I hope, never will be.
4) No CPUs and other components for the next 5+ years, probably. It’s a good thing I use linux and pretty much any computer will work. My i3-8xxx should last me a few more years before giving up and by that time I hope to get the hell away.
Correction to n.4: China will import their computers, huawei and xiaomi and maybe others. I may upgrade to these. but who says China will keep getting their CPUs?..
I hesitate reading news even more than usual, but the information creeps in regardless.
An interesting new feeling I encountered today is deeply rooted shame for my country. And now I hope to make sure it won’t be “mine” anymore.
The transition is very interesting. I went to sleep in my own bed in a peaceful country and woke up in a war without moving an inch. Frightening.
Yeah, this was a proof of concept to make sure that things actually run.
The psi4 os open-source and partially written on C, python is mostly API.
Do you work in ab initio solid physics? I would like to ask a few questions in the future if it’s okay.
Psi4 in python, visualized in Vesta.
